A
co. of The Cambria Group venture capital firm? Technology
lab spinning off a start up in the online games and entertainment market.,
will create massively multiplayer games, will also provide an open platform
that empowers small developers and their games.

Socket
- collaboration software allows peer-to-peer listing and linking of user
apps like games.WeCanTalkFree
3.0 (Q4 99)Mission
to become the online platform of choice for small group interactive multimedia
applications, development and delivery of Internet software.

subsidiary
of Climax / Japan, Blue Stinger(Q4 98 real-time movie action-adventure,
Dreamcast, creatures in the game are done by Robert Short, of Beetlejuice
fame and story board artist is Pete Von Sholley, whose credits include
Mars Attacks, The Mask, and James and the Giant Peach.)

05-16-2000
opening an office in Manhattanacquired
title, development resumed on The Realm09/99
to open a dev studio in Oakhurst, CA., staff drawn from veterans of Sierra's
Yosemite studio, group will keep the Yosemite name which was purchased
from Havas.

CrowdBurst
web collaboration service enables people to chat with other users who are
on the same Web page. CrowdBurst also enables users to post notes
"on" websites for others to read later or, by organizing in a group, be
led through a "guided tour" of sorts; moves to any other page by the group
leader pushes others in the group to the same site. Users can also create
a "trail," which is a group of websites that can be followed.

9/98
bought by Eidos, Unholy War(psx, distr Eidos), Gex, Legacy of Kain, Cyrus
Lum used to work there. Producer / Director
Amy Hennig: "Men wear clothes, men like clothes, but men do not shop for
clothes. Women play games, women like games, but they don't shop for games."
Why? I don't know. The same reasons men don't shop for clothes.

CD-publishing
systems for game developers. Crossfire: a hybrid (ISO 9660, HFS,
and Rock Ridge formats) CD-R mastering system running on either UNIX or
Windows; and the Replicator hands-free batch production of up to 50 discs
from a master.